You let the tree huggers in to space launch, they'll be demanding six-year-long environmental reviews for every single piece of a moon base or asteroid sampling flight.
Unless the chinese do it, then crickets.
Yeah, I don't understand how he makes more money than I do, I just know he stole it from me somehow....
Blue collar gets paid by effort put in, white collar gets paid by end result produced.
A century ago, number or wrench turns per shift accurately captured the former. Today, babysitting a cnc isn't as easily translated into a measurement of productivity.
There's obviously a whole continuum in between but it's unsurprising that traditionally blue collar work is adopting white collar trappings.
So let's all blame the scapegoat.
If that's how you want to think about it, sure.
At some point I suppose you'll come to the realization that concierge medical services are all fine and dandy if you're a one-percenter, but don't really scale very well.
Idunno dude. It's just so fucking egregious it tends to come to front of mind when many of those same academics complain about politics interfering with dispassionate pursuit of truth.
The hypocrisy is strong, and it is worth remembering.
It's fine. Plenty of money, good salaries, and lots of open positions in academic and industrial r&d.
Unless of course you went full lefty-loon-woke in the last decade and went on record that according to science chicks can have dicks and dudes can (and should!) wear dresses.
Then I suppose we're occupied france, the gulags, and the cambodian killing fields all rolled into one.
By which you mean they disappear their treehuggers instead of indulging them so that nothing can get built without lots of delays and legalized bribes (read: donations to environmental groups)?
Sorry guy. The graft over there is omnipresent. Red envelopes stuffed with cash are a form of life. To the point of you best have one to give to the doctors if you or your relative is hospitalized.
"I totally shot that cop in self-defence, preemptively. He might have shot my friends as they were setting their explosives..."
necessary to kill all humans...
Fuck if I'm calling it that. Namespace collision with an entire orbit regime. They're all labeled as "kuiper" in the satellite catalog https://celestrak.org/NORAD/el...
By nipping in the bud expensive local patchworks of building regs.
"Net zero" hvac, dishwashers, laundry machines, etc don't actually work as well as traditional alternatives, so homes built around these things need to make up the difference somewhere.
And then there's the added compliance cost. Yes it's a good idea to insulate and airseal your house, but if you have to meet a blower door standard or else it's not fit for habitation, then you need to pay people who don't work for free to run the test at a very minimum, and in practice to also chase down any residual air leaks in the construction.
They might even believe they're doing good. Politics is a magnet for those kinds of people. C suite too, sometimes, if the company is on solid enough financial footing that morons up top can coast along.
Ballots? No. Just do it.
If you do, it isn't harm. It's curating the gene pool.
An egghead is one who stands firmly on both feet, in mid-air, on both sides of an issue. -- Homer Ferguson
